• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Type of plastic in our fenders?

broadwayron

broadwayron

Husqvarna
A Class
This is a long shot... any chemists out there? I'm looking for something to fix my mangled front fender (Strada) until I receive a new one. But, things like Plastex, PlastAid, JB Weld, etc. have different formulas for the type of plastic. I know nothing of this stuff, but I've seen words like Polypropylene, Polyethylene, and HDPE. Some versions specifically say they won't adhere to some of these materials.
Any ideas?
 
from the interwebs... ATV fenders typically consist of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) materials. Polyethylene and polypropylene are considered oily plastic materials, or olefinic plastic materials. This type of plastic allows the dirt and mud to wash off, as well as prevent any paint or adhesives to fuse.
 
Motosportz said:
from the interwebs... ATV fenders typically consist of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) materials. Polyethylene and polypropylene are considered oily plastic materials, or olefinic plastic materials. This type of plastic allows the dirt and mud to wash off, as well as prevent any paint or adhesives to fuse.
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I saw that, too. I was wondering about the Strada fender, because it broke so easily, it seems like it might be made of something different than my dirtbike (or, ATV?) fenders. (Since it's technically a streetbike.) It doesn't bend much, which is weird for a fender.
 
That may well be true but I have 9 bikes 5 cars 5 trailers and something plastic is always broken....I have even cast parts out of this stuff....has always worked for me
 
Haha, I watched the video for Plast-aid, and I bought it. 6 oz for $23 (delivered)... if it doesn't work, I'm sure I'll have other uses for it. Seems like a pretty handy product.
The fender was about $50 shipped.
 
Plast-Aid won't work... their "test" is putting some liquid on your finger and see if it gets tacky when applied to the plastic. It's doesn't get tacky, so I'm guessing the fender is either Polyethylene or Polypropylene (since they say it won't adhere to those).
Here's what the fender says, in case anyone cared:
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Edit: a google search says that PP+20Talc is Polypropylene and 20% talc. So, there you (I) have it.
 
rww said:
found this at ACE hardware site........
Loctite® All Plastics Super Glue® (681925)
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Yeah, I used that. It worked like a glue, but didn't "chemically bond" the pieces like I was hoping. It did hold 2 big pieces together for a short ride, but there's a small piece (that the brake cables route through) which I didn't try to glue. I don't think I'll try and find the correct bonding agent, because this seems to be good enough. I may drill some holes and ziptie the pieces if I get bored.
 
Soldering iron / blow lamp and some ali mesh heat the mesh untill it can melt into plastic, use iron to melt the knobbles that come through the mesh so its a mess but solid. Tempo fix.
Or use another sheet of plastic and use polyurethane pu adhesive like tiger seal now that stuff works.
 
Well, my new fender arrived amazingly fast! So, while installing it, I found yet another lousy Husky design... you need to remove all the rotor bolts to get to one of the fender screws! I keep telling myself that it's a cheap bike, hence the crappy design. But, there are so many instances like this.
I'm convinced... if Beta made a TR650, it would cost twice as much, but would be built 3 times better.
/Rant over.
 
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